About
Roisin Markham lives near the sea in Cahore, North County Wexford. She is a steward to the land, 18 oaks and a Crann Fia Úll in their place. Where she raised three free-range sons that have gone to sing their own songs in the world. They have started to come back, it’s very confusing! At home its mostly the dogos, her hero husband and her aspirations to create a food forest. She grows food badly and makes terrible tiktoks about it.
She believes that a low carbon Post-Growth Society is the future worth living into. A time traveler working with future and current ancestors this is the answer to the climate and biodiversity crisis.
Let nature regenerate, where possible 30% should be given back to nature immediately.
To be a good ancestors is to pull our impact back within planetary boundaries and create a strong social foundation where no one falls short of life’s essentials.
She also believes if we want to live in a democracy then we have to practice it and use our public voices.
Part of my Story
I work on closing the gap between policy, strategy and operations for 2030.
Sometimes that’s eco-literacy, economic literacy, corporate sustainability education, climate cafes and other times its management consultancy, strategic co-design, PMO or creative projects.
I work across sectors, and silos bridging and connecting people. I bring multi-discipline design and systems approaches to organisations, municipalities and communities. I’m innovative and creative.
+20 years of working across software, e-commerce, professional services, financial services, aviation, strategic & service design, speculative design & innovation, education. art & culture, not for profits.
Prior to 2014 Roisin kept an active blog practice on blogspot, on her studio and creative social research arts practice.
Swims with seals 2022 – 2013, personal photography project celebrating her open water sea swims blog.
At the beginning of 2025 she decided to write weekly Studio Notes that are more life notes. She refuses to use AI for them, practicing reflection back across the week, synthesising, ask a question of the reader sharing resources and a view to the week coming.



Public Speaking
DTNI & Carmichael All Ireland Collaboration and Transformation Conference 2025.
Kate Raworth, Doughnut Economics lecture and panel discussion, UCD 2024
Rethinking Growth Conference Plenary 9, WEALL Ireland Hub, TCD 2024
Beyond Carbon Webinar, IRDG 2024
There is no Design on a dead planet, IXD Defuse, Dublin 2023
The hill design thinking lives and dies on. Advance CRT PHD Researchers Summer School, Keynote speaker June 2023
Design Thinking Ireland Conference, IDRG Panelist June 2022
Environ 2021, Co-Keynote with Kate Raworth Can Ireland thrive within the doughnut?
Festivals & events
Earth Rising, Climate Cafe collaboration with Claudia Geratz. IMMA 2024.
IDEN & Allies Living Doughnut Economics a conversation with Kate Raworth, IMMA 2024
Step into the doughnut and panel speaker, Global Green, Electric Picnic 2024, 2023
How much do your knickers cost? BrightClub comedy gig, Whelan’s Dublin, April 2023
Can Fenit live in the doughnut? Wildmind Festival 2023, Fenit County Kerry
Earth Rising 2022, IDEN Movement Lab
Congregation unconference 2020, Ireland looking over my shoulder
Other
Tiktok viral video: +88K views, 10.3K likes, February 2024